As I write this, we are now recognizing the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world as we knew it before March 10 of 2020, will not return. The entire planet has been forced into a total adjustment of “how we used to do stuff”.
Our behaviors reflect the restrictions placed upon us to protect us from illness or possibly potential demise.
One of the restrictions has limited the amount of contact we can have with our family, friends and community. Being “locked down” has had a severe impact on our emotional, mental and physical well-being. We need to be reminded that we are a social group of beings, and that we thrive with generous helpings of personal interaction, communication and physical contact. Unwatered plants tend to droop, and so do we without smatterings of human stimulus.